ABOUT AAJA-LA

The Asian American Journalists Association is a national, nonprofit educational association that owes its founding in 1981 to the vision of a small group of journalists in Los Angeles. Today, AAJA's Los Angeles chapter continues to promote AAJA's three-part mission:

• Encourage young Asian Pacific Americans to enter the ranks of journalism;
• Work for the fair and accurate coverage of Asian Pacific Americans; and
• Increase the number of Asian Pacific American journalists and news managers in the industry.

AAJA-LA's 200-odd members span the range of journalists in Southern California, from TV news anchors Tritia Toyota of KCBS and Wendy Tokuda of KNBC-TV to ABC News correspondent Carol Lin to Associated Press photographer Nick Ut to the Los Angeles Times' business editor Bill Sing, deputy foreign editor Craig Matsuda and deputy managing editor Karen Wada.

AAJA-LA is part of a truly national organization with 15 chapters spread throughout the country. Aside from Los Angeles, the largest chapters are New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. Members span the globe from Paris to Bangladesh.

AAJA-LA offers scholarships for college and graduate students, internship stipends for students, recent graduates and beginning journalists, and subsidies for mid-career journalists to attend professional development programs.